Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his ...

ST. LOUIS — American jazz music mourns the irreplaceable loss of Ahmad Jamal, an incredible pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator, whose eight-decade career helped changed the direction of jazz ...

Ahmad Jamal passed at his home in Ashley Falls, MA at the age of 92. Born Frederick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh on July 2, 1930, Jamal began playing piano as a teenager and moved to Chicago following ...

The legacy of Ahmad Jamal and Pittsburgh’s jazz roots were celebrated on Wednesday at the Community Engagement Center in Homewood at the Journeys & Jazz event. Jamal, a Homewood native whose career as ...

Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, broke through with his small group music in Chicago in the 1950s, and recorded scores of records through 2016 — a 65-year recording career. He died April 16. This is ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — At the Afro-American Music Institute in the Homewood South neighborhood, the legacy of jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal can still be felt and seen. Dr. James T. Johnson Jr. and his wife, ...

The pianist, 92, has been hesitant to glance back: “I’m still evolving, whenever I sit down at the piano.” By Giovanni Russonello The first time Ahmad Jamal put out a live recording with his trio, it ...

American Idolseason 23 winner Jamal Roberts has been nominated for a Grammy Award, and this prestigious honor will save the reality competition series from becoming irrelevant. American Idol began on ...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Emmy-nominated actor, and Grammy Award-winning poet and musician, brought his band and talents to day 5 of Indy Jazz Fest at the beautiful Cabaret on September 21, 2024. Saycon ...